102. Venice (Ponte Rialto) [cca. 1926-1928]

Gheorghe Petraşcu

1872, Tecuci, Galați - 1949, Bucureşti

Estimate

EUR 25.000 - 45.000

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EUR 47.500

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Tue, 21 December 2021 19:00

Paying great attention to the landscape from the very beginning, the artist Petrașcu shall forge authentic chromatic praises in approaching this genre. Delighted by the rural meadows and the vineyards, by the Dobrogea sand, by the walls of Sighișoara or by the monastic settlements from Viforâta and Târgoviște, during his pilgrimages the artist Petrașcu turned his attention also to places like Vitré, Toledo or Venice. He arrived in Venice at the end of his student years, in 1902, when he was to make a series of trips to European cities (London, The Hague, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Brussels, Senlis, Zurich, Bern, Basel, Stockholm, Toledo) and he would fervently return here from the 1920s until the first half of the 1940s. He would be marked by sumptuous monuments such as the Doge's Palace, the Ca 'd' Oro Palace, St. Mark's Cathedral, the Campanile Bell Tower, the Church of Santa Marcola, the Mobilieri Palace or the splendid Rialto Bridge. Lonely and silent, Petrașcu would go through these places in carving for inspiration, absorbing their climate and spirit, that he would then render in virtuous canvases. Using the motives inspired from the fortress, Petrașcu would build a new city, charming, material and weighing heavily, with less transparent skies and darker palettes, kept in the bloody walls, traits of his personal Venice. (GM)

References

CONSTANTINESCU, Paula; SCHOBEL, Doina, Catalogul „Expoziție de pictură Gheorghe Petrașcu”, Muzeul de Artă al R.S.R, București, 1972. MANOLESCU, Neghina; CONDREA, Elena, „Gheorghe Petrașcu 1872-1949. Biobliografie selectivă”, Biblioteca Municipală Târgoviște, Târgoviște, 1973. COSTESCU, Elonora, „Gheorghe Petrașcu”, Ed. Meridiane, București, 1975.

Dimensions

width 40.5 cm, height 33 cm, custom 33 Ã 40,5 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed bottom right, with blue, "G. Petrașcu"

Research information

The artwork is reproduced in "PetraÈcu" album, Aurel Vladimir Diaconu, Royal Foundation for Literature and Art, Bucharest, 1947 at p. 97, under the title "VeneÈia, Rialto" ("Venice, Rialto"). The artwork was part of "Gheorghe PetraÈcu Painting Exhibition", R.S.R. Art Museum, Bucharest, 1972, under cat. 69 and is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue under the title "Ponte Rialto. VeneÈia" ("Ponte Rialto. Venice"). The artwork was part of "Gheorghe PetraÈcu" Exhibition, Barberini Museum, Rome, 1973. From the centennial exhibition organized by the Art Museum of the Republic in 1972, 80 works of art were displayed in an open exhibition at the Barberini Museum in Rome, and 40 works of art were presented in the Bonn Museum of Modern Art. A touring exhibition was also organized in TÃ¢rgu MureÈ, Cluj, IaÈi, Craiova and ConstanÈa. The work of art is inventoried in "Gheorghe PetraÈcu 1872-1949. Selective biography", Neghina Manolescu; Elena Condrea, Municipal Library TÃ¢rgoviÈte, TÃ¢rgoviÈte, 1973, under cat. 449, p. 35, under the title of "Ponte Rialto. Venice". The artwork is reproduced in "Gheorghe PetraÈcu", Elonora Costescu, Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1975, cat. 20, p. 38, under the title "Ponte Rialto-VeneÈia" ("Ponte Rialto-Venice").

Dating

cca. 1926-1928

PROVENANCE

colecÈia istoricÄ a procurorului Alexandru RÃ¢Ècanu; colecÈia avocatului Constantin Basiliade

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